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p 9 w. E. BORDEN LOCK Filed Dec. 28, 1931 Patented Sept. 19, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LOCK deceased Application December 28, 1931 Serial No. 583,494

2 Claims.

By way of explanation, it may be stated that grave vaults of a known form comprise a base and an inverted box-like body resting on the base and connected thereto by bolts or latches.

In known constructions, it is necessary to turn the'entire grave vault upside down, to get at the latches or bolts, so as to enable the body of the vault to be separated from the base, and one object of the invention is so to construct,

l0 mount and operate the bolts that they can be withdrawn, to permit a separation of the body of the grave vault from the base, without inverting the grave vault, as aforesaid. Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the class described which can be assembled readily with grave vaults already made, Without working any troublesome changes in such structures.

Fig. 1 shows in vertical transverse section, a

grave vault wherein the device forming the subject matter of this application has been embodied; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section; Fig. 3 is a section on the line-3--3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section on the line 44 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5

is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

' The drawing discloses, in a latching means for a grave vault structure, a base 1 comprising a bottom 2 having a depending wall 4 with an outstanding flange 6, an angle member 10 being located under the bottom, and having a vertical flange 11 extended toward the bottom, and a horizontal flange 12 extended toward said wall 4, the horizontal flange having an opening 15, the angle member 10, the bottom 2 and said wall 4 forming a bolt chamber, theangle member being held on the base 1 by securing elements 14 engaging the flange 11 of the angle member and the wall 4 of the base.

A plate 26 is located underneath the flange 6 and is provided at its inner end with a housing 29 that extends up to the opening 15 in the horizontal flange 12 of the angle member 10, the plate being secured at 31 to the flange. A shaft 32 is journaled between the plate 26 and the flange 6, in a channel-shaped bearing 2'7 on the plate, the shaft having means external to the wall 4 whereby the shaft may be rotated, the last-specified means being. a laterally extended handle 33 on the outer end of the. shaft.

The plate 26 is provided at its outer end with a stop 28 that extends on' both sides of the shaft 32 and terminates the movement of'the handle 33, when the handle is swung through an arc of about 180 degrees, the stop being trough-shaped in cross section and housing the handle, so that the handle will not be likely to be moved accidentally.

A head 34 is carried by the shaft 32 and is located in the housing. Spring-pressed bolts 19 are slidable in the aforementioned bolt ehamber, and operating means 18 are extended inwardly from the bolts and are pivoted to the head 34.

By swinging the handle 33, the bolts 19 may be disengaged from the keeper 9 on the body 8 of the grave vault. The vault does not have to be turned upsidedown to disengage the bolts 19 from the body 8, when it is desired to remove the body.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. Latching means, for use on a grave vault base which has a bolt chamber provided intermediate its ends with a depending housing; the latching means embodying a shaft journaled on the base, the shaft having means external to the base whereby the shaft may be rotatedgthe last-specified means being a laterally extended handle on the outer end of the shaft, the base being provided with an external stop for the handle, a head carried by the shaft and located in the housing, oppositely-disposed bolts slidable in the bolt chamber, and operating means extended inwardly from the bolts and pivoted to o the head in offset relation to the shaft.

2. Latching means, for use on a grave vault base which has a bolt chamber provided intermediate its ends with a depending housing the latching means embodying a shaft journaled on the base, the shaft having means external to the base whereby the shaft may be rotated, the last: specified means being a laterally extended handle on the outer end of the shaft, the base being provided with an external stop that extends on both sides of the shaft and terminates the movement of the handle when the handle is swung through an arc of about one hundred and eighty degrees, the stop being trough-shaped in cross section and housing the handle, so that the han- I dle will not be likely to be moved accidentally, a head carried by the shaft and located in the housing, oppositely-disposed bolts slidable in the bolt chamber, and operating means extended inwardly from the bolts and pivoted to the head in offset relation to the shaft.

WILLIAM E. BORDEN. 

